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reliably restarting services using upstart or runit

I want to reliably restart my app and web server processes on crash. If I understand correctly, runit starts every service as a child process. If the child process crashes this sends a signal to the ...
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How do I run a Python script in the background and restart it after a crash?

I have a very simple Python script that I'd like to be always running on my Ubuntu 12.04 server. I thought of using upstart + monit. The problem is that those tools seem rather complicated for a ...
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Python script as a service on Ubuntu 11.10

I am facing the following problem. I want to run a python script as a service on Ubuntu 11.10 system (already mentioned in the following link: Python service using Upstart on Ubuntu) I followed the ...
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Upstart for pydoc webserver

I'm trying to use upstart so that the pydoc webserver for a package I'm developing always runs. If I run it from the command line: pydoc -p 7464 /some_path/my_python_package it works fine, and ...
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Upstart not executing the exec function in upstart.conf

I have a completed upstart conf file loaded here: http://pastebin.com/5E7J5jEY but I'm having trouble with the upstart not executing the exec function and/or relinquishing the kernel console CLI back ...
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ubuntu upstart script execute a script.py program

I'm creating an upstart script to execute a python program I've written. When the service is starting I want to echo starting service - script.py... and echo the process id of the program once ...
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Using libnotify from a daemon started with upstart

I have a python script that gets messages from an MQTT server and parses them to display using libnotify. This works fine when I run it from a terminal, but when I run it using upstart I get no ...
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How do I setup gunicorn?

Upstart doesn't like to start gunicorn because it tries to call setpgrp (see github issue), what would be the best way to start [gunicorn] on a 10.04.1 server install? - Ideally with automatic ...